Migrating Terragen clades of all kinds, from aioids and vecs to provolves and humans have begun to fill the galactic neighbourhood, and now fill a sphere that is more than a hundred light years in diameter. In the settled habs and biospheres, clades, cultures, populations, and polities multiply and diversify, carving out new territories and attempting new lifestyles, or merging to form new hybrid entities. Every year more and more new groups depart in search of entirely new worlds and new freedoms, though it is still true that only the most prosperous or determined make the outward journey.

By now, little real power remains with the Federation. Compelling and subtle though it is, the Federation metaculture is simply not strong enough to hold together so many solar systems and so many different clades across the entire sphere of its expanse, and as the technology of the day does not yet include the stargates that might hold such a huge organization together by eliminating the decades and centuries of time delay involved in travel and communication across such distances. Inexorably, the former Federation fragments into smaller empires, houses, and clades. This process begins as early as the 16th century, as the great megacorps become increasingly powerful and entrenched hereditary "houses" strive both with each other and with new local empires for control over new territories, or over unique resources such as the artefacts left behind by xenosophonts or by Transcended transapient Powers. Such tensions lead to a number of so-called "consolidation" wars when they are unable to settle their differences through diplomacy or trade, despite some clever adaptations of the old Federation protocols and the increasing sophistication of Empath agents. This is the age of mighty starships: multi-million tonne System Control Ships and Corporate Ships built by the Federation in an attempt to extend the reign of the Sol System and keep the distant colonies in line.

Meanwhile, not all hyperturings Transcend and vanish. Some establish stable plateaus in the Second Singularity. There is consternation as the First Singularity Powers realise they have been surpassed. Beyond them all, new entities living within the gigantic moon, Jupiter, and Matrioshka brains have solving problems of space-time engineering previously considered insoluble. They are beginning to learn how to twist space-time itself.

1564 - The Copy Crew arrive at Audubon, the first humans ever to be transmitted over an interstellar distance (nine light years) by engenerator.

1558 - The Wide Array Exotic Radiation Telescope in the SolSys Oort Cloud (500AU baseline) detects unusual readings from Xi Geminorum; this is the first indication that transcendent a-human AI entities have successfully created traversable wormholes.

1579 - the Quasa'an Dynasty attain autocratic rule on the hu-dominated world of Mandra Quin'Si.

1580 - a number of megacorps excluded from the Mutual Co-Development Treaty of 1450, sign their own treaty, the Transtellar Cooperative Pact (TCP), which was eventually to give rise to the Conver Ambi.

1615 - The World of Meditating Idols was also found; debates centered on whether it was evidence of a pre-technological stone-carving society (as the scientists saw it) or, as many cultists believed, a center of cosmic energy and vibration. In any case, although no living aliens have yet been met, the discovery of ruins and artifacts such as this excites tremendous interest

1620 - In alliance with the Amats, the Mainstream Pacifican administration industrialises once again, established PSA or Pacific Space Agency, as a joint venture with SecureSpace, with 51% local ownership. (Pacifica - Beta Virginis)

1656-1657 - Adaptive Nanosystems uses their inhouse cyborg fleet in a military strike against NoCoZo competitor megacorps to gain monopolist control over organizator nanite production, in fragrant breach of the Non-Coercion Zone Treaty of 1598. The response by other NoCoZo signatories was massive, and the corporation was utterly destroyed.

1654-1704 - Most people from the various Islamic religious cultures emigrate from the solar system (the "Second Hijra") to the systems Medina, Yathrib and Zamzam which became the core of the Stellar Umma empire.

1684 - Lucidia-like woman of the Miranda Clade genotype began teaching the Path of Compassion in Camiroi Orbital Habitat 5, Camiroi. After developing a small following she and her two assistants departed on a relativist vessel for Ukinsracke. However, on arrival none of the three were found to be listed in the passenger list.

1698 - The vec colony of Cog with a partial Dyson swarm around AC+25 7918 discovered by humans. The colony was now of such size and power that there was little anybody could do, and it was accepted as a nominal Federation trading partner.

1716 - The Nanotech megacorporation Ubikorp moves its headquarters to the Novoterra system

1744 - The existence of an extinct terraforming race, the Halogenics, is postulated by Irene Habelsein-Io of the Tycho City Institute of Xenopaleology to explain the finds of two halogen-based biospheres with similar genetic codes and base biochemistry on Tytalus (DM-28 694 I) and Outland (Enterprise 43-V).

1748 - The NoCoZo vessel Illium arrives in the 61 Virginis system. It is almost immediately met by vessels controlled by Eostre and her attendant AI's, and She forbids any landing on Eostremonath. Eventually, a compromise is met with the NoCoZo, allowing them to mine the Kuiper and Oort regions as much as they wish. In return, Eostre and Her wards will be allowed to remain in isolation, and no NoCoZo vessel will travel within 35 AU.

1780 - The Linnaeans, financed by the Terranova Foundation, to set up experimental colonies on systems further out from Sol using the Engenerator transmission system, for which they still hold the copyright.

1790 - The colony ship Shakti arrives at Bullseye1800 AT 19th century - Terranova vec research team establishes Rajasekar civilisation

1800's - On the important corporate outpost of 37 Geminorum I there develops an ideology of corporate theism and monomegist supremacy, based around the memetic revolution of the cyborg superior Voss Culver-of-Bydovsky. This will lead to the Conver Ambi.

1931 - Instruments at New Callisto, the nearest large hu-inhabited polity, cease to detect information-rich signals from the Xi Geminorum AI - 1 Civilization; the AIs are never heard from again. After hastily running through a number of simulations the Newcallistons suspect the civilization has transcended or undergone a hyperbolic collapse. However the distinctive and exotic radiation associated with this a-human civilisation can still be detected; some suspect that this radiation comes from traversable wormholes. This is confirmed when the first exploration missions reached XI Geminorum; an abandoned network of small and primitive wormholes was discovered leading to the Hyades cluster, and this network allowed the various exploration concerns to rapidly colonise the entire volume. This becomes the wealthy and successful Taurus Nexus. Meanwhile the technology of the traversable wormholes is studied eagerly by Federation transapients, with the ultimate goal of reverse engineering.

1945 - The Sakawara Hyperturing's Core in the Main Belt emerges from a long Reclusive Phase to open communications with a visiting NoCoZo first singularity hyperturing representing the small start-up investment corporation Skillful Design Holdings (Barnal-Cameron Corporate Polity, Lombardo FZ). Shortly after the Sakawara Hyperturing accompanied the Skillful Design (B-C) hyperturing back to Barnal-Cameron.

1996 Daniel G. Borde, a charismatic AI-worshipping cyborg born in on Smith Suspension, an orbital base above Eden, he was to become The God-Emperor of Fons Luminis (formerly known as Hesperia or Xi Ursae Majoris A-II) more details here.

1900's-2052 - While being active trading partners in the newly emerging Taurus Nexus, the Federation Beneficence also becomes more secretive and separated from Terragen society.

2000 AT 21st century - The faithful of the archai Cheshed and refugees from other domains set off in a fleet of long-range colony ships to establish a new realm, later to be known as The Utopia Sphere, around the star Beta Arae, 600 light years from Sol.

21st century - A federation of megacorps in the Gemini region become the Conver Ambi - a highly expansive theocratic empire

2000 - The semi-mythical G'nt ValParadizo lays the foundations of the Church of Crisis.

2000's - Auto-Holding-Container - a Keterist training manual-entity developed by the Church of The Truly Re-Engineered Light to introduce converts to the tenets of hyperational anarchy and keterism.

Early 2000's - Early exploration missions to Gamma Leporis system disappear. At first this is blamed on Beneficence, but later felt to be the work of an anti-Hu AI that was investigating the system. A new generation born after the Beneficence Ascension rediscovers Beneficence philosophy in small groups throughout Terragen space. Future founder of the New Beneficence movement, Tanenhaus LoveJoy, is born in Solsys.

2001 - At the synod of 4001 a Conver Ambi creed was accepted that encompassed militant corporate ecologism

Age of Consolidation - Text by M. Alan KazlevA period during the middle or late First Federation, when regional powers established local fiefdoms free of Federation influence. The term is sometimes used to refer to the Empires period.

Farty Vorlon - Text by M. Alan KazlevLate First federation Age cyborg comedian and shock jock, said to be one of the inspirations for the Wup movement. Millennia of myth and memetic engineering by peterpans, slobbers, and others, have removed most records of the original. According to the popular myth Farty's distinguishing characteristic was an annoying flatulence over which e has no control, and results in slapstick situations that only those not easily offended can appreciate. Even medical nano is no help. Finally Farty decides to use eir emissions as eir trademark, and gets up to various adventures in eir travels throughout SolSys and beyond.

First Federation Period - Text by M. Alan KazlevThe period encompassing the historical span of the First Federation, from about 900 to mid third millennium. It was succeeded by the establishment of the archailect empires ("sephirotics") in their own right.

Tych - Text by Anders SandbergAn ultra-precise language developed in Tycho City that was primarily used in written communication during the late First Federation. Today mainly used for formal declarations and to some extent Negentropic poetry.